Restrict Dynamic Updates to a Portion of a Zone

[docbrown at mailexcite.com]

In article <cYrH4.78$Nc4.2380 at burlma1-snr2>,
  Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> wrote:
> In article <8clets$d9u$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <docbrown at mailexcite.com>
wrote:
> >Is there anyway using Bind 8.2.2p5 to restrict what parts of a give
zone
> > can be updated dynamically?
> >
> >For example, say I have a zone, testzone.com with hosts A, B, C, D.
Can
> >I say let the hosts and IP address for C and D be updated dynamically
> >while never dynamically change A and B?
>
> You could delegate A and B into zones of their own:
>
> zone "testzone.com" {
>   ...
>   allow-update { ... };
> };
>
> zone "a.testzone.com" {
>   ...
> };
>
> zone "b.testzone.com" {
>   ...
> };
>

A good idea, but the NS records for zone a.testzone.com or
b.testzone.com are store in testzone.com and those NS records could be
updated/changed.


Jim


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